Sunday, October 5, 2014

Mark Schauer Charged With The Largest FineIn Michigan History For Campaign Fraud

Mark Schauer has spent his time in Michigan representing
special interests and partisan policies that hurt our state and families.
Schauer doesn't want voters to remember that he was hit with the largest fine
in Michigan’s history for what several media outlets , including the Battle
Creek Inquirer called ‘money laundering’ in 2009.

Mark Schauer chaired the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee and
oversaw the Senate Democratic Fund, for which his big-talking chief of staff, Ken
Brock, took over as treasurer.

The fund raked in $440,000 above the legal limit of $20,000
per person – which the Dems don’t deny. Twelve senatorial candidate committees
did, with Schauer’s as the worst offender at $187,000.

The moolah was instantly pumped into the campaigns of four
key candidates, three of whom were trounced anyway.

For state races, this is a staggering chunk of change. The
grievance is pretty cut and dried (some might call it money laundering). When
seven candidates got wind of the GOP’s secretary of state complaint, they
ostensibly demanded a refund. Marky-Mark did not.

Once the Democrats realized they’d been discovered each of
the folks who were still working in the legislature went ahead and asked for
refunds.

Essentially they said “oops, our mistake, don’t punish us
for it!” Prusi, Whitmer, Switalski, Brater, Thomas, Slavens and Jacobs all took
their illegal cash back, admitting they’d been caught with their hands in the
cookie jar and trying to make things right (well after the fact).

But no such change of heart from Mark Schauer. When he
breaks the law he stands by his criminal activity! And he stood by his man,
too. Ken Brock